Light Work by Dear Patriarchy

Systemic Racism vs. The Working Woman (The Introduction)


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Welcome to Episode 12, our first discussion on systemic racism and how it impacts the working women, specifically those from BIPOC/BAMER communities. We discuss the US & UK statistics on the endemic racial inequity within the corporate world and read several narratives highlighting the experiences of BIPOC/BAMER employees within a racist workplace. This episode is the introduction to what will be a series of conversations about systemic racism in the corporate world, some of which will involve special guest speakers to add personal narrative to our statistical and research-lead discussion. We hope you'll join us on what we feel is our most important journey.

- Personal narratives taken from Karen Yuan's June 2020 article in Fortune entitled "Working While Black: Stories from Black Corporate America"
- August 2020 article for The New Republic entitled "Corporate America’s Hollow Denunciations of Systemic Racism" for the discussion of what systemic racism is
- Society for Human Resource Management 2020 report for statistics on Black workers seeing racial discrimination far more than their White colleagues
- 2020 study entitled "The Natural Hair Bias in Job Recruitment" for statistic on natural hairstyles being viewed as less professional than straightened hairstyles
- Ruqaiijah Yearby's article for the ABA entitled "The Impact of Structural Racism in Employment and Wages on Minority Women’s Health" for the US poverty rate statistics
- 2015 McGregor-Smith review on behalf of the UK government entitled "Race in the Workplace" for statistical information relating to racial inequity in the UK
- University of Manchester 2019 study commissioned by the TUC entitled "Racism at Work"  for UK statistics on racial harassment and inequity within the workplace
- Adwoa Bagalini's July 2020 article for the World Economic Forum entitled "5 Ways Racism is Bad for Business - and What We Can Do About it" for how racism impacts the workplace
- June 2020 Edelman report entitled "A Universal Demand for Change" for statistics on consumers boycotting brands as a result of their political stance
- McKinsey 2020 report entitled "Diversity Wins" from which the profitability statistic was taken
- GlassDoor 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Study that advised on millennial employees experiencing/witnessing racism 3.5x more than 55+ year old employees
- September 2020 article for Fortune entitled "Change the world—For Whom? Why Addressing Raci

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Light Work by Dear PatriarchyBy Jennifer Audrie & Lisa Lynn

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